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With the state of advertising on youtube, patreon, ad reads and super chats are a more reliable way to monetize than copyrighting the video.

Youtube content creators are a good example of people monetizing art without the need for copyright. Donations and voluntary funding are key parts of the content creator world already. Copyright is not particularly important unless they are getting strikes from a copyright troll.

Patrons. Sell merch. Sell tickets. Super chats.

Patents and copyrights are literally ideas put on paper that one is claiming legal dominion over. Unless you are making physical media, your products are your ideas.

It’s a tradeoff, not a cure for problems artists face. The current system favors wealthy institutions over artists. No one is willing to donate to a giant record company but fans of the work will readily give money to the artist just because they like them. Patronage is a better system for artists.

Most artists work for free. Some of the best artists I know have day jobs.

The promise of fame and fortune is a product of an industry that is based on physical media being the only way to share information. The bit has liberated music for everyone yet we cling to the past.

Artist and Dev here.

Yes to this. Having an imagination means you can think of different ways to monetize your work that isn’t trying to put an imaginary wall around ideas and information.

The news is more about cutting a good promo than informing the public.

Anyone who gets their news from comedians should be laughed at and any comedians who think that they are important should be ignored.

I use cash dollars to buy drugs. There is a massive push to keep dollars operable. Dollars must be a cult.

Having your company being compared to a cult is a good sign.

That’s just good branding.

Science is a method for understanding the world, not an ideology.

I do give most non scientific people the benefit of the doubt. They are at least trying. What is really disturbing is that this is a real problem within sections of the scientific community and especially within the public relations of the scientific community. “Science Communicator” is almost synonymous with this trap. I think it stems from oversimplification and a need to generate funding for research.

There is a narrative about journalism being a field by and for the everyman. I think that the exact opposite is true. It has become an institution dominated by the dominant.

I like the idea that there is some hard-nosed blue collar people out there trying to speak truth to power but it seems that they speak for power because it pays.

Being in this field, I can say that it depends on the setup. If it is directly connected to the electrical system of the car while it is inverting the power, this could void the warranty for the entire battery monitoring system and thus the car itself. Lithium batteries are controlled and monitored for safety and messing with this circuit by utilizing the LA battery as an external power supply could cause damage to the system that could result in catastrophic outcomes.

That LA battery is there for a reason. I don’t work with Tesla, but I would assume it is there as a backup for the monitoring and safety systems. There is a reason they are using an LA battery in a lithium powered car.

Same. HN is the best but even this was something I found from a random face to face in a hotel lobby. I have gotten most of my friends off of the social media feeds. All of them have seen benefits and a couple have seen such a drastic change that they equate it to taking an antidepressant.

I think you are correct.

The more accessible opting out becomes, the more leverage regulator people will have when negotiating with the dominant social order.

Space travel like this is down the road, but it’s only a long road if you are thinking in terms of your own finite existence.

Also, opting out is in demand. From a more immediate perspective, I think that there is a lot of room for innovation around personal privacy and opting out. No system created by humans is permanent. More surveillance means that humans will create systems to subvert it or render it useless. This has already happened in many ways.

A system is nicer to its people when they are there voluntarily. These changes will also work to improve the quality of life of those in the system as well as those outside of it.

Clubhouse interests me. I don’t use social media like twitter, ig, facebook and don’t miss them. Clubhouse seems more interesting than the others. It reminds me of one of my favorite things to do on VRChat, making drum circles and singing songs. Just connecting with people for the sake of it.

Waiting on an invite though. I’d love to check it out.

I think this is the best way forward.

The system needs integrity to work but it needs discipline to maintain it. Now it has neither.

Political pressure creates an us vs them mentality where reality must pass through a filter to get to the public and whoever controls this filter wins. This is the battleground of divide but it is also how we know what’s going on. This is why we have several versions of events and one’s belief in a version is entirely dependent on one’s political views, not evidence. Evidence is tacked on after the fact.

One thing I like to do is give people the benefit of the doubt. This helps me understand where they are coming from in their own words. Most people on any side of any discussion are decent and deserve to be heard.

There’s plenty of hate on Twitter. They won’t go after all hate and they don’t care that you think they are hypocrites.

Stop trying to convince these people of hypocrisy. They aren’t listening to critics and they lack the ability to see the world outside of the tight frame they were provided. We are all like this most of the time but I find that the moral panics have created situations where online communication is not possible along political lines.

Focus on you, not them. People who build ideas from self-reflection are less volatile and not as susceptible to moral panic than those who define themselves by politics.

If all people tried as hard to understand each other as they do framing their political opponents as evil, we wouldn’t be in this place. Interesting times.

If someone believes a lie, is it a lie?

We are in a situation where all sides of the argument are essentially lies (to someone) because of how we have had events framed for us. Is the media responsible? Depends on who you don’t like. Is Pizzagate or Russiagate real? Conspiracies have flown in all directions.

Lie itself is a term that is more persuasive than falsehood. When i hear someone call something a lie i tend to ignore everything that person says.

Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. Lie or falsehood? If you don’t give them the benefit of the doubt, call it a lie. I think using the term lie itself is a self-contained conspiracy theory. One is assuming that what they are hearing is not just wrong, but not worth investigating because the person saying it doesn’t actual believe it.

He is dangerous because his revelations were true.

I’m Appalachian. We have ridiculously low violent crime rates for the levels of poverty we have. I believe that this is a function of population density rather than any intrinsic trait of us hilljacks.

I went to PDX often before the lockdown and I was struck by the lack of housing. I met with mostly contractors and construction people and they either lived in campers or an hour north in Washington. These people were middle class and couldn’t afford that city. I can only imagine how awful it would be to have low income in a place like that.

There is no shortage of land though. It is not Manhattan.

I have had both. Maschine is awesome.

I used to use an MPC and I got to try a Maschine for a bit. I fell in love instantly. It takes the technical power of a full production studio and makes it feel like you’re playing with a toy you’ve had since childhood.

Between that and the synths Native Instruments makes, go with Maschine.

I go out to the Bay Area often and I don’t know many people who fit into this narrative. This article may say more about the author than the Bay.